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A Cooking Thread?
LTK:
I love to cook with fresh ginger root, but the packages always contain like three whole roots and they end up shriveling before I can use it all. What are your favourite recipes with ginger?
doombilly:
I've been fermenting a lot of stuff.
Sauerkraut.
Squash
Pickles
Onions
Salsa
Chilis
Mushrooms
I even have a gallon of Apple Wine set to be bottled on Christmas Eve.
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: LTK on 11 Dec 2017, 11:39 ---I love to cook with fresh ginger root, but the packages always contain like three whole roots and they end up shriveling before I can use it all. What are your favourite recipes with ginger?
--- End quote ---
If you've got some left, you could try planting it. Preferably a whole root, though if there are a few shoots left, it could still work. Once the stalks die down, it's ready to be harvested. Just cut it off with a clean knife, and replant.
doombilly:
Ginger works well in pots too. Probably going to do some here. Since it gets too cold to survive the winter.
Cornelius:
Of course, for the less horticulturally gifted, you can always make candied ginger. Peel and slice your ginger as thinly as possible. Boil and simmer for 10 minutes, drain, repeat. For 500g of ginger, mix 800g of sugar and 1l (or 1kg) of water in a pot, add the drained ginger, and bring it to slightly above 100°C (somewhere in the range between 100°C and 110°C should be fine) or about 225°F. Remove from heat, and let it sit for some time. You can store it in its syrup - in a sterilised pot, it should keep a long time - or you can drain the syrup and coat the ginger in granulated sugar.
Incidentally, this is one of the recipes that goes right back to Nostradamus.
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